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“I'm, like, sobbing… in tears, because it was so… I mean, he's a poet”: Flea talks collabs and a new Chili Peppers album

He admits he cried when he heard Nick Cave’s vocal on his solo album

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“All the guys in the audience were looking at the chords you were playing, and they’d study it… and we kind of liked that. And all the girls weren’t”: Paul McCartney recalls one of things he noticed on the Beatles' first trip to the US in 1964

He played two intimate LA gigs over the weekend

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“It changed my life for the better. I went into a coma which helped me to quit smoking”: Joni Mitchell accepts a Juno Lifetime Achievement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and says that her near-fatal brain aneurysm gave her a “better life”

“I was on the road with men for years and years and years and now I live with a house full of women,” she quips

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"This version isn't what I created": James Blake asks to have his name removed from Kanye West's album credits

"My original version is a completely different production in spirit"

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“You really can’t ask us what song to play. We have so many. So we just asked management, and they said 'first song, first album'”: Rush just made their live comeback with new drummer Anika Nilles by going right back to the beginning

“Also, it’s the only song we know how to play," jokes Alex Lifeson

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"It's the musical equivalent of someone whispering in your ear": Max Richter's SRM Sounds releases ASMR Choir, a vocal and string library with a "low-dynamic and ultra-close" vibe

"A palette of choral and string textures that provides a really special colour to add both a purity and ‘humanness’ to your score"

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“We paid him very, very well for what he did for us. His dependents became incredibly greedy”: Queen are being sued by the relatives of late photographer Mick Rock, says Brian May

And May and Taylor are at odds over another Queen tour

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“I believe it will translate to something good, and something wonderful, and something needed and something extremely appropriate”: Lindsey Buckingham hints that he and Fleetwood Mac bandmate Stevie Nicks could be working together again soon

Plus, he’s almost completed a solo album

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"The reason that song is the heartbreaker it is, is because of the way that he interprets those chords. That’s not how the demo sounded”: Bonnie Raitt praises Bruce Hornsby’s piano playing contribution to one of her signature songs

According to producer Don Was, though, it wasn’t all plain sailing during recording

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“It’s essentially a ballad, but we put a pounding beat to it. It turned into a power track”: The classic ’80s No 1 by A-ha that inspired a U2 anthem

“The melody line must have been lying in Bono’s subconsiousness”

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“They describe themselves as a Mantra-Rock Dada Pythago-Cubist Orchestra, and the band name translates to ‘angina of the chest’”: The microtonal music theory behind viral math-rockers Angine de Poitrine

Our resident music professor breaks down the experimental tunings and time signatures behind the costumed Québécois duo breaking the internet

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“Electronic gear was expanding. The Fairlight was being used all over the place. All those things were going on and we wanted some of that”: Rush legend Geddy Lee on the making of the band’s groundbreaking ‘80s classic

How the trio battled cabin fever in the depths of winter in search of a sound that had more of Alex Lifeson's guitar, more cutting-edge synths, "more of everything!"

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I'd made five tracks in 25 years, but after I was prescribed medical cannabis, I made an entire album in six months. So, what’s going on?

Let’s get into the weeds

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“A stunningly creative and beautiful sounding synthesizer”: Korg miniKORG 700Sm review

They say great things come in small packages, but is Korg’s new miniaturised analogue synth just another victim of shrinkflation? We grab a microscope to find out

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“Kenny came over to me, holding his guitar, and said, ‘I think you should let Mike play the keyboard’”: Charlie Puth on making “yacht rock in 2026” with Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins

Puth says that Loggins came up with the title of their new song, Love In Exile, before they’d even started writing it

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“I decided it would be funny to write a song about how he was holding us all down, how he was trying to mess it all up, sabotaging our great works of art”: The story of the Beastie Boys' incendiary Sabotage

Its legendary DIY video was hugely influential, but few realise that the fury of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage was triggered by real studio pressure

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“You start putting expectations on yourself. ‘OK, I’ve got to compete with Bach and Beethoven and Mozart and The Beatles!”: An in-depth conversation with rock guitar’s most maverick virtuoso, Paul Gilbert

Featuring: his “mouse” heartbeat, the jazz pianist so good he's “inhuman” and the most courageous thing a shredder can do

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“An insane killer, a lunatic, he’s going to do something bad. Give him a ride, why don’t you? But when the end comes, you realise Jim’s singing a beautiful, romantic song": The story of the Doors' beautifully bleak masterpiece

It was the last track Jim Morrison recorded

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“He stepped up, took control, fought for me and pretty much changed my life, saved my life”: Teddi Mellencamp pays tribute to her dad at iHeart Radio Awards

John turned up to accept the Icon Award

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“If you are choosing one desktop mic to cover podcasting, streaming and clean home-studio voice capture, the PodMic USB makes a strong case”: Rode PodMic USB review

The flexibility of XLR and the simplicity of USB combine to create a versatile dynamic broadcast contender

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Suno takes another step into music production with AI step sequencer MILO-1080

MILO-1080 is a 16-track sequencer equipped with a Suno-powered sample generator and subtractive synth engine

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“Bon liked a drink, but he wasn’t just a wild man. And he was great to us. He’d ask us, ‘Got any money?’ When we said no, he’d pull out a huge wad of tenners and give us 20 quid to buy some beers”: The life and times of legendary AC/DC singer Bon Scott

As Angus Young said: “Bon joined us pretty late in his life. But that guy had more youth in him than people half his age”

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“I just feel so proud to be a Black British female artist”: Olivia Dean cleans up at the Mobo Awards, as Pharrell Williams accepts a special prize for songwriting from Nile Rodgers

Dean scooped three awards and also performed

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“Help for young people in the arts is scarce – projects like these are so important”: Sam Fender has raised £50,000 for youth music charity from his People Watching tour

Singer recently claimed his first UK Number One

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“Rode spent the money where it counts, namely the preamp and conversion”: Rode NT-USB+ review

A sensible, well-thought-out USB mic with some clever tricks to elevate it above the competition

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